Asides - Written by Robert Ivan on Monday, June 1, 2009 0:27 - 2 Comments
Bing “Decision Engine” Review
Bing.com is a new search engine that advertises itself as a “decision engine” becuase it helps you make decisions I guess. The site is not up and running yet but they have a video you can watch to see what they’re offering. I always like to try new offerings which may make my web experience more enjoyable, like Wolfram Alpha’s comparison feature, anyway so I sat through the Bing video.
…they need to redo the video. Why? Because right as the following is being said, “…instead of spitting out search results by popularity we break them into logical categories and bring the best match to the top… and show related searches right there in the results page” The picture below is being shown.
See that? In the search history. Colbert Report… what the hell does that have to do with anything? Nothing! It’s distracting. The running search example in the video is Home Depot, so colbert? Take it out! I’m still looking forward to seeing how Bing will actually work though. Will it help me realize self actualization? It better because that is how high the bar is set.
UPDATE:
Bing is now up and running. I did a simple search comparison for “NJ Boater Safety Course” on Google and Bing and Bing came out on top. It came back with the most relevant sites.
Google – Results 1 – 10 of about 1,130,000 for nj boater safety course. (0.17 seconds)
Bing – 1-10 of 80,500 results
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my default search engine is Yahoo but now i am using BING because it is much better than Yahoo. i heard that Bing search engine would power Yahoo search also.
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Convergence, Press Release - Apr 5, 2010 23:36 - 0 Comments
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i have been evaluating the search results of Microsoft Bing compared to Google and they are comparable. Bing gives almost the same relevant search results just like Google.